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Perhaps it could be clearer - there is a distinction between military and military-style: One of them is fully automatic, and the other is semi-automatic. The AR15 CAN be made to fire full auto, but that would be illegal.

Auto is auto. Semi is semi. This hoopla over "military style" makes no sense. The military does not use full auto AR 15s. They are semi and burst. Other weapons are full auto but that does not make them "military style". It just makes them a full auto weapon.

Full auto is not illegal. You simply need to fill out the right paperwork, get fingerprinted, background check, etc. They are fairly common at the ranges around me in the free state of Arizona. They're a blast to shoot which is why most people buy them.

I am a gun owner that is only against high powered assault weapons with large magazine clips. Since Sandy Hook, there have been over 950 gun deaths in the USA to date.

The NRA does NOT represent GUN OWNERS....but in fact ONLY represents GUN MANUFACTURERS. Follow the money.

Over 72% of NRA members believe in the most recent modifications of gun laws presented by the Obama Administration.....this in contrast to the NRA's gun lobbyist's goal to continue to sell as many guns as possible....here AND across our borders.

My husband and I and our friends, neighbors, community in general are pretty clean-cut, educated, responsible and so forth. I do not know a single person that supports modification of the Second Amendment. The phrase "shall not be infringed" was trampled upon prior to the new set of edicts President Obama has signed. The new gun laws do nothing to remove guns of any kind from criminals and now make criminals of law-abiding citizens.

High powered? Nobody who is an actual gun owner would use that false descriptor. Most hunting rifles use a larger caliber. Don't blame the illegally obtained inanimate piece of metal. Blame the psycho firing it!

The big picture is that banning a certain type of rifle does not protect anyone. America's children are at risk from psychos and false protection in the form of "gun-free" zones. Criminals break the law. Adding more laws is not going to change that fact.

Are you kidding?Lanza could NEVER have killed as many kids with just a single shot hand gun before being apprehended....but it turned out just like he had planned. HE GOT EVERY ONE OF THEM IN SECONDS!! This is unacceptable.

You have to admit....they are kind of overkill don'tcha think???.....literally!FYI:

JUST A BASIC LEVEL ENTRY SINGLE SHOT .50 BMG chambered rifle starts at about $2,500 - $3,500. Good quality optics start at about another $1,000....this does not count the over the top expense of ammo. This is why this is such a lucrative industry.

Like I said 3 to 5 K unless you are buying second hand or building your own...............BJ

Semi-automatic means that for each pull of the trigger one round is fired. The AR used was a semi-automatic. Most handguns are also semi-automatics and actually easier to fire in close quarters than a rifle(see Virginia Tech).

The typical AR is NOT a .50 BMG. That's a huge round that very few people can fire from the shoulder. .223 would be a typical AR caliber.

Again. The inanimate piece of metal is not to blame. As much as I would like there to be some magic solution to this problem there just isn't one. Punishing law abiding Americans for the actions of a psycho who STOLE the guns he used is ridiculous.

I agree. Troll. Multiple problems with the info from his/her post. I am a gun owner and the NRA represents me perfectly. The only people I have heard this stupid statement from on are anti-gun people pretending to be gun owners.

Second, this 72% stat cited is bogus. Who did a poll of NRA members, the membership list is private and I am pretty sure the NRA didn't release the list to a polling company so they could put a poll out that hurts their cause.

I want to add to my comment above, I KNOW this 72% number is bogus now. While I just finished watching the O'Reilly Factor and he had 2 liberals on the show discussing the issue in NY about privacy and publishing legal gun owners addresses. The second person he was interviewed, her last name was Sussman came out with this 72% bogus number as well. Almost word for word what the poster above put down.

Gun owners beware, the liberals have manufactured another bogus stat, not unlike the 90% of guns in Mexico stat comes from the U.S. and they are obviously going out to all the news shows, online forums, blogs, etc. and sprinkling this bogus stat around trying to get it into the national conversation. Don't let them. This is fake and a lie.

The only bogus point you just made is that you heard it from 'SO CALLED FOX NEW."

Did you know that Canada banned Fox News from their country a few years back because it was so innacurate and full of misinformation that the people got rid of it??.....but it has currently come back into the Canadian air space.....some Canadian viewers have commented that they watch it"just to get a good laugh."

Of course everything I say to you is bogus because that is where you are getting all of your information.

CNN is a bi-partisan network and the 72% I refrenced came out from them right after Sandy Hook. It was the sentiment from all Americans including NRA members at that time. I'm sure that has changed since because of the ginned up frenzy they have created.

You can take this down your silly troll path if you like and live with it in the dark in ignorance.....because you will never deviate from so called Fox News and Friends.

You said Obama would never win the election either (from Fox).....and guess what?.....it was a landside!! Do you wonder why you didn't have a clue about that???....

Hey troll, what exactly is a "magazine clip" anyway? Just what kind of gun do you own? I think you are a liar and a fool.

"Gun free zones" are the reason for these massacres, not AR-15's. Nearly EVERY mass shooting since 1950, with the notable exception of the attempted assassination of Gabby Giffords, has been in a GUN FREE ZONE! Go ahead and look it up, or is your closed liberal mind too fragile to handle facts?

Instead of foolishly pretending to be a gun owner and an NRA member, why don't you admit what you really are and explain why keeping guns from peaceable citizens has been such a dismal failure everywhere and always leads to calls for EVEN MORE bans and gun control.

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I believe that the Texas gun owners map needs a small white dot over the location of Austin -- that poor place has become almost as progressive as Berkeley, CA., thanks to the University and computer companies.

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Why can't we ban guns? If you want to self-defend yourself then learn Martial arts?

Are you saying that marksmanship is not a martial art?How moronic. Anyway, not everybody has the same hobbies as you do, or the inclination to spend their time as you dictate.People have jobs, people have careers, people go to school.People have families to raise, and people have their own hobbies that they care about. Most people don't have the time to spend several years learning kung fu. You can't expect them to just accept being assaulted, injured, and potentially killed by criminals just because they don't fit your conception of who gets to defend themselves. So no, guns will not be banned any time soon.